No jobs and no new business are predicted from the Cattle Show at Tropical Park this weekend (Investigative Reporter Defede's video). but it is costing us plenty: $250,000 of our hard-earned tax dollars and 40 County Park’s Staff members have devoted working on this event. Souto has gone to Colombia 3 times with Park Staff for this, at a cost of $12,300 to us. There are more cattle attending than people from Latin America: They have 40 people registered from Latin America for the event. I say boondoggle and Souto says: "We could well be the capital of all this genetical stuff."Here is a tip Javier: Why don't you promote our existing local agriculture instead of looking for phantom trade.
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Isn't it nice to know that our commissioners can spend this amount of money while at the same time the very same Parks department is planning to severely cut the food budget for the animals at Metrozoo?
What the carnivores need meat? Aw, just feed them less, skinny looks good....
At least then the (starving)animals will be easier to chase down if they escape-especially good considering Metrozoo employees are only going to be allowed to have ONE pickup truck to cover the whole zoo.
Forget the Cattle show-the real BullS@#$ is already here.
Souto is a dumb ass. We don't have the land to graze cattle and less of it every time the dumb ass votes to move the UDB. We do have viable but threatened, by loss of farmland by dumb ass commissioners like Souto, agriculture. Our agriculture is tropical fruit, tropical plants and winter vegetables. We have no cattle industry except developers that put cattle on their land to keep an agriculture exemption. Let's hope people went to the orchid festival at the Fruit and Spice park and not the stupid cattle show which helps local agriculture not at all. Maybe Souto wants to retire to Columbia and be a cattle rancher. We can only hope. The Alzheimers man outdid himself this time. Tired of your money spent on worthless projects, vote them out.
Not to nit-pick, but Souto went to Colombia (with an "o") not Columbia. He is definitely not Ivy League material.
Just got back from the International Cattle and Agricultural Show, where the star-spangled SoutoMobile was there to greet visitors at the front gate. I was wondering how such an event came up with the funding in these hard times, and now it all makes sense.
For a cattle show, it seemed pathetically short on cattle. The racing pigs seemed to be the top draw for visitors. The event was not entirely without interest, though. The dog obstacle course was fun to watch and who knew that UM has an equestrian team? Other than that, it seemed to be just another Souto dog and pony show.
Plus Crazy Souto got to dress like a cowboy!
ok. What was the final head count? Cattle vs people?
Did the Mayor go and look for Dade county skinny cows with the Property Appraiser?
Did they have a "you pick" and "we deliver" section for developers looking for a tax break?
We need the facts. Can the county provide them?
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